Learning to learn: You and your learning In this free course, Learning to learn: You and your learning, the focus is on the perspective that you have on your own learning. However, as you gather evidence about this perspective, we hope that you will begin to re-evaluate it and to think about the possibility of change. First published on Mon, 21 Mar 2016 as Author(s): Creator not set

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WGS.S10 Gender, Power, Leadership, and the Workplace (MIT) This course will provide students with an analytic framework to understand the roles that gender, race, and class play in defining and determining access to leadership and power in the U.S., especially in the context of the workplace. We will explore women and men in leadership positions within the corporate, political and non-profit sectors, with attention to the roles of women of color and immigrant women within this context. We will also look at specific policies such as affirmative action, Author(s): Fried, Mindy

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London's population and economic size are those of a region. As such it contains various peripheries within itself. Further to this, there are some issues, mainly economic planning and transport, which are closely connected with the rest of south-east England. The Labour government introduced a Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill in October 1997 and organised a referendum on 7 May 1998 in which 72 per cent voted (on a low turn-out of 33.5 per cent) in favour of establishing a Mayor and

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With the use of computers and the web becoming widespread in most parts of the world, many disabled people now could potentially have better and more independent access to information and communication. New technology developments can make this access easier, but they can also raise new barriers. These barriers can often be removed by considering the needs of disabled users when designing and implementing electronic or online educational materials.

We considered earlier the universalist principles of 1789 deriving from the Enlightenment that inspired the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the redivision of France into departments. As the dominant group in the Convention by 1793, the Jacobins regarded themselves as mandated to enact the ‘general will’ of the people in a sense inspired by Rousseau: not as the aggregate weight of the individual aspirations of 28 million Frenchmen, but as the expression of that which, as virtuous men

The institutions of the EU work towards objectives related to the three pillars and the creation of a body of Community law that applies

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The institutions having legal rule-making powers include the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament and the European Commission. Finally, there is the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which has the power to settle lega

Social workers need to recognise diversity: valuing and respecting service users – irrespective of, for example, their ethnicity, gender or age – is central to good practice. It is also about working in a way that counters the unfair or unequal treatment of individuals or groups on the basis of their race, gender, class, age, culture, religion, sexuality or ability. There is a growing body of law that seeks to prohibit and punish a range of discriminatory behaviours in various kinds of so

Animation Trends Timeline For my school project.. a history timeline of animation, how it began and where it could be going. Starts from drawings done on cave walls to animation today. (05:01)Author(s): No creator set

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India triumphs in maiden Mars mission India's low-cost mission to Mars successfully enters the red planet's orbit, crowning what Prime Minister Narendra Modi said was a "near impossible" push to complete the trip on its maiden attempt. Sarah Toms reports.
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Events Leading to the Colonization of Australia This video tells about the people and events that brought the British penal colony to Australia during the 18th century. It is short and relatively concise. It uses pictures of the individuals involved to describe the events. (03:46)

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7.014 Introductory Biology (MIT) The MIT Biology Department core courses, 7.012, 7.013, and 7.014, all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principles of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology. Biological function at the molecular level is particularly emphasized and covers the structure and regulation of genes, as well as, the structure and synthesis of proteins, how these molecules are integrated into cells, and how these cells are integrated into multicellular systems and organismAuthor(s): Walker, Graham,Khodor, Julia,Mischke, Michelle,Chi

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Literary Festival 2016: Utopia: getting somewhere or going nowhere? [Audio] Speaker(s): Toby Litt, Patrick Parrinder, Samantha Shannon | Our panel of authors and experts discuss the history of the utopian genre in literature and its present state. Toby Litt (@tobylitt) is a bestselling and prize-winning writer, whose ten novels to date include Finding Myself and the science fiction Journey into Space, an innovative contribution to the utopian genre. His most recent book is Life-Like, which has been shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2015 and long listed forAuthor(s): No creator set

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Hannah Chung – Empathy-driven design: Creating something meaningful Hannah Chung delivers the spring 2016 Chambers Family Entrepreneurial Lectureship at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. Hannah is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Sproutel, the creator of Jerry the Bear – a platform to engage children in play-based healthcare education. Sproutel has been recognized as one of 32 companies representing diversity inkeep reading »Author(s): Vanderbilt News and Communications

Any narrative is made up of a series of events or incidents, arranged in a particular way. This can be defined as the plot of the story. Consider, as an example, Ernest Hemingway’s appropriately entitled ‘A Very Short Story’ (Hemingway, 1944, pp. 135–6). Different readers will summarise the story in different ways, allocating different levels of significance to various narrative events. If you can access a copy of the story, you might like to try and summarise it yourself and compare